What ver. firmware for NEC Nd-1300a to use?

John_Doe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:04 pm **Post subject:**

mostly memorex. trying out both + and - but can't really see any difference in stability.

Problem is with proggys like dvd-copy'ers that don't have a 'verify' option. I did a copy of a dvd with Pinacle the other day. The damn thing took nearly 2 hours and hogged all my cpu power, only to find the disc was unusable. =( I used a RW disc just in case, but stilll.. waste of time!

Death · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:14 am **Post subject:**

I've tried various medias and + seems to be more reliable.

I've had bad experience with princo (total crap imo), and good with traxdata & verbatim (both dvd+r) which works fine with x4.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2004 5:27 pm **Post subject:**

I think this drive is just about ready for the scrap heap

Me, PS22 and papa_scream22 :lol:

are having problems with it. Mine rarely writes a data DVD, occasionally give me "power calibration errors" and is a general PITA to get working, I've wasted ~10 blanks today trying to burn 6 movies to DVD.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2004 5:33 pm **Post subject:**

I can't speak more highly of Pioneer, had this drive for well over a year and I'd suspect their newer drive as just as good build quality.

just out of interest, is it on a shared IDE channel? if so rip out whatever shit you got on it and try it solo.

Power calibration errors I used to get 4 or 5 years ago with media that my cd writer didn't support. It was because the drive was junk, got a plextor and never looked back :mrgreen:

ohgodnotanotherone · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2004 7:22 pm **Post subject:**

* RubB* RUBB*
* just yesterday burnt a data dvd FLAWLESSY

*

then again , I rarely use it

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2004 7:23 pm **Post subject:**

hehe, thanks Ohgod

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 5:00 am **Post subject:**

so waddajasay mates. Wait for dual layer?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 9:42 am **Post subject:**

well they will cost about ?100, you can get a decent DVD-r burner nowadays for about ?70. So its just a matter of how much burning you do, I don't think anyone can advise you eitherway.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 9:44 am **Post subject:**

Dual layer for me definately

There's a 16x Philips out now with lots more to follow.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 3:53 pm **Post subject:**

hell that would be nice. to rid 9gb of the hd at the time! =)
Maybe see what I find in Thailand? Only 17 days till I leave now, but hey who's counting? =)

ohgodnotanotherone · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 4:05 pm **Post subject:**

PC_Arcade wrote:

Dual layer for me definately

There's a 16x Philips out now with lots more to follow.

Damn

Even I will get that the moment it's out :mrgreen:

Philips is as reliable and robust as they get : they did invent (along with sony) CD , cd-rom and eh......Cd-I ......

http://www.press.ce.philips.com/press/documents596.html

But ehm.....

@ PCA - it says up there it's out in july ?!!?

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 4:07 pm **Post subject:**

Looks like I jumped the gun then

July will give me time to save up :lol:

The_Skull · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 11:11 pm **Post subject:**

For more info on new firmwares and hacked (most of the time better firmwares) check http://forum.rpc1.org

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 11:49 pm **Post subject:**

tnx skull, but thing is there are so darn many to choose from, I don't know which to pick.

Polityk · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2004 11:54 pm **Post subject:**

Does anyone have any information about the cost of dual-layer DVDs? I'm going to stick to single-layer for some time...

JD, as for your problem (sorry, didn't have time to read this thread earlier), it happens very often that a burning program says "operation successful" while in fact it isn't. My last CD-RW, a Teac it was, was always saying that, then failed verification in nero, but after all it turned out the media were usually recorded ok. Well, sometimes they indeed weren't. It has happened to me earlier with several drives, because dirty heads, 2 drives being connected to 1 IDE etc. If this happens to me more than 3 times, it means that it's high time to change my drive. Definitely it's not a firmware problem (unless, of course, the new firmware is able to improve compatibility of the drive with used media).

John_Doe · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2004 12:47 am **Post subject:**

Quote:

2 drives being connected to 1 IDE etc

why, is that a bad thing?

Polityk · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2004 1:15 am **Post subject:**

John_Doe wrote:

Quote:

2 drives being connected to 1 IDE etc

why, is that a bad thing?

Not in itself, theoretically it shouldn't matter, but in some cases it may interfere. Don't ask me what it depends on; I don't know.

Death · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2004 1:38 am **Post subject:**

The opposite happened to me a few years ago.. Everything read by my Toshiba dvdrom did produce crc-errors when it was alone on the ide cable, but if i put another drive like a burner on the same cable, the toshiba would read everything just fine..

The drive must have been lonely or something :roll:

(Could be ViA's fault too.. I will never touch any ViA stuff ever again)

Polityk · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2004 1:45 am **Post subject:**

I always used ViA, now I'm on my first mainboard with a different chipset, this time it's nVidia and I must admit I like it more.

Or you can be a snob and buy Intel's CPU.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2004 8:30 am **Post subject:**

I've got a funny feeling that my IDE cables may be dodgy, I'm going to pick up some new ones and see if that helps.

What ver. firmware for NEC Nd-1300a to use?

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